[HN Gopher] New White House AI Policies Introduce Government by AI
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       New White House AI Policies Introduce Government by AI
        
       Author : hn_acker
       Score  : 16 points
       Date   : 2025-04-10 19:24 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | sightbroke wrote:
       | > In a second, more concerning scenario, the emphasis on speed
       | and American AI dominance could overshadow the safeguards.
       | Agencies might rush deployment, overuse the waiver provisions for
       | high-impact systems, and prioritize efficiency metrics over
       | impact assessments. The DOGE team's reported use of AI for
       | monitoring staff communications suggests this path is already
       | being pursued in some corners of government. Should this approach
       | predominate, public trust will likely erode further, potentially
       | triggering a backlash that hampers legitimate AI adoption across
       | all levels of government.
       | 
       | Why not just let AI do the voting in elections and setting the
       | public's trust & sentiment towards AI? That way we will not need
       | to worry about AI adoption being hampered.
        
         | ericjmorey wrote:
         | Brilliant!
        
         | thmsths wrote:
         | This is basically the central theme of one of Asimov's short
         | stories. In the story a giant computer called the multivac
         | selects one person that it deems statistically representative
         | of the entire nation, asks them a couple of questions then uses
         | their answers to "elect" the next president.
        
         | iAMkenough wrote:
         | BallotProof can be used to automatically reject and/or generate
         | ballots, and some of the creators went on to get hired at DOGE.
         | Maybe we're on that path already?
         | 
         | https://github.com/DevrathIyer/ballotproof
        
       | ilrwbwrkhv wrote:
       | 4 yrs. Is it too long for the destruction of everything or not is
       | the game now.
       | 
       | Waiting for the sniveling Marc Andreesen to show up on a podcast
       | and claim this to be blue skies.
        
       | frogperson wrote:
       | Please consider attending the nationwide protests on 4/19/25.
       | 
       | Silence and inaction are basically immoral at this point. Voices,
       | bodies, and action are REQUIRED.
        
       | sksxihve wrote:
       | A government by the AI for the AI, at least all those tech
       | companies will be able to justify the money they've burned when
       | they get awarded some sweet tax payer dollars.
       | 
       | > They must also maintain and update an AI use case inventory
       | accessible to the public. This inventory must call attention to
       | "high-impact" agency uses of AI, such as when the AI output
       | "serves as a principal basis for decisions or actions that have a
       | legal, material, binding, or significant effect on rights or
       | safety."
       | 
       | > Certain AI use cases automatically qualify as high impact, such
       | as the use of AI in "safety-critical functions of critical
       | infrastructure" and "in healthcare contexts".
       | 
       | Cool, AI that will have a high impact on trivial things like
       | "rights", "safety", and "healthcare", nothing can possibly go
       | wrong with any of that.
        
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